Proto-Lezghian: *=iž
Meaning: (one)self
Lezghian: žuw (1-2 pers.)
Tabasaran: ž̌uw (1-2pers.)
Rutul: =iǯ
Tsakhur: =iǯ
Kryz: iǯ (2d cl.)
Archi: inž
Comment: The stem originally referred only to the 1st/2d classes (the 3d and 4th had a separate reflexive pronoun), and this situation persists in Tsakh., although other languages have modified it in different ways.
The obl. base of this pronoun must be reconstructed as *žʷi- (1st cl.), *že- (2d cl.), cf. the Lezg. and Tab. forms (going back to the original oblique base) and Rut. ǯu- (1), ǯi- (2), Tsakh. ǯu- (1), ǯe- (2), Arch. žu- (1), že- (2).
See Гигинейшвили 1977, 114; Aлексеев 1985, 73-74.
